abjurer

English

Alternative forms

• abjuror

Etymology

abjure +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/

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Noun

abjurer (plural abjurers)

1. One who abjures. [From 16th century]
   • 1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments‎^[1], 4th edition, London: John Daye, Volume 2, Book 7:

     To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.

   • 1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny‎^[2], London: for the author, page 25:

     […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:

     [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—

Translations

one who abjures

• Dutch: afzweerder m, verzaker m, herroeper,
• Portuguese: abjurador m

French

Etymology

From ab- +‎ jurer, borrowed from Latin abiūrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.ʒy.ʁe/

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Verb

abjurer

1. (transitive, intransitive, very formal) to renounce or abandon solemnly; to abjure
2. (transitive, intransitive, religion) to formally renounce one's religious belief; to apostatise
3. (obsolete) to reject by oath someone's authority

Conjugation

Conjugation of abjurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abjurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abjurant /ab.ʒy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abjuré /ab.ʒy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjures /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjurons /ab.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/	abjurez /ab.ʒy.ʁe/	abjurent /ab.ʒyʁ/
	imperfect	abjurais /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/	abjurais /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/	abjurait /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/	abjurions /ab.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/	abjuriez /ab.ʒy.ʁje/	abjuraient /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	abjurai /ab.ʒy.ʁe/	abjuras /ab.ʒy.ʁa/	abjura /ab.ʒy.ʁa/	abjurâmes /ab.ʒy.ʁam/	abjurâtes /ab.ʒy.ʁat/	abjurèrent /ab.ʒy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	abjurerai /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/	abjureras /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/	abjurera /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/	abjurerons /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	abjurerez /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/	abjureront /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abjurerais /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	abjurerais /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	abjurerait /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	abjurerions /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	abjureriez /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁje/	abjureraient /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjures /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjurions /ab.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/	abjuriez /ab.ʒy.ʁje/	abjurent /ab.ʒyʁ/
	imperfect2	abjurasse /ab.ʒy.ʁas/	abjurasses /ab.ʒy.ʁas/	abjurât /ab.ʒy.ʁa/	abjurassions /ab.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	abjurassiez /ab.ʒy.ʁa.sje/	abjurassent /ab.ʒy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	—	abjurons /ab.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/	abjurez /ab.ʒy.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “abjurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.